Odoo Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 30, 2019

How we protect your privacy on Odoo.com and when you use our services

Odoo SA and its affiliates offer many services to help you run your business, including a platform to host your own
Odoo database. As part of running those services we collect data about you and your business.
This data is not only essential to run our services, but also critical for the safety of our services and all our users.
This policy explains what information is collected, why it is collected, and how we use it.

Information we collect

Most of the personal data we collect is directly provided by our users when they register and use our services. Other
data is collected by recording interactions with our services.

Account & Contact Data:
When you register on our website to use or download one of our products, or to subscribe to one of our services (Odoo Online, Free Trial, Odoo Apps, Odoo.sh, etc.),
or fill in one of our contact forms, you voluntarily give us certain information.
This typically includes your
name, company name, email address, and sometimes your
phone number, postal address (when an invoice or delivery is required),
business sector and
interest in Odoo, as well as a personal password.
We never record or store credit card information from our customers, and always rely on trusted third-party
PCI-DSS-compliant payment processors for credit card processing, including for recurring payment processing.

Job Application Data:
When you apply for a job on our website or via an employment agency, we usually collect your contact information (name, email, phone),
and any information you choose to share with us, in your introduction letter and Curriculum Vitae.
If we decide to send you a job proposition, we will also ask you to provide extra personal details, as required to fulfill our
legal obligations and personnel management requirements.
We will not ask you to provide information that is not necessary for the recruitment process.
In particular, we will never collect any information about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions,
religious beliefs, trade union membership or sexual life.

Browser Data:
When you visit our website and access our online services, we detect and store your
browser language and geolocation,
in order to customize your experience according to your country and preferred language.
Our servers also passively record a summary of the information sent by your browser, for statistical, security and legal purposes: your
IP address, the
time and date of your visit, your
browser version and platform, and the
web page that referred you to our website.

Customer Database:
When you subscribe to an Odoo Cloud service and create your own Odoo database (for example by starting a Free Trial),
any information or content you submit or upload into your database is your own, and you control it fully.
Similarly, when you upload an on-premises database to the Odoo Upgrade website, you own the data in it.
This data will often include personal information, for example:
your list of employees, your contacts and customers, your messages, pictures, videos, etc.
We only ever collect this information on your behalf, and you always retain ownership and full control on this data.

In-App Purchase (IAP) Transaction Data:
When you use Odoo on the Odoo Cloud or on your own self-hosted deployments, some optional "In-App Purchase" services may be active by default.
This typically includes auto-completion features to help you quickly input client and supplier info, as well as integration with
third-party service providers for sending and receiving SMS, paper letters, etc.
When you use these services, with our without payment, some necessary transaction data is transmitted to Odoo Cloud services and have to be communicated
to third-party services for the purpose of executing the service.
You can find the detailed privacy policy for each service on the IAP Privacy Policy page. The IAP services are always optional, even when enabled by default, and the IAP Privacy Policy also
explains how you can opt-out of those services.

How we use this information

Account & Contact Data:
We use your contact information in order to provide our services, to answer your requests, and for billing and account management reasons.
We may also use this information for marketing and communication purposes (our marketing messages always come with a way for you to opt-out at any time).
We also use this data in aggregated/anonymised form in order to analyze service trends.
If you have registered to participate in an event published on our website, we may transfer your name, email address, phone number and
company name to our local organizer and to the sponsors of the event, for both direct marketing purposes and in order to facilitate
the preparations and booking for the event.
If you have expressed interest in using Odoo or otherwise asked to be contacted by an Odoo service provider, we may also transfer your
name, email address, phone number and company name to one of our official
Partners
in your country or region, for the purpose of contacting you to offer their local assistance and services.

Job Application Data:
We will only process this information for our recruitment process, in order to evaluate and follow-up with your application,
and in the course of preparing your contract, if we decide to send you a job proposition.
You may contact us at any time to request the deletion of your information.

Browser Data:
This automatically recorded data is anonymously analyzed in order to maintain and improve our services.
We will only correlate this data with your personal data when required by law or for security purposes, if you have violated our
Acceptable Use Policy.

Customer Database:
We only collect and process this data on your behalf, in order to perform the services you have subscribed to, and
based on the instructions you explicitly gave when you registered or configured your service and your
Odoo database.
Our Helpdesk staff and engineers may access this information in a limited and reasonable manner in order to solve any issue
with our services, or at your explicit request for support reasons, or as required by law, or to ensure the security
of our services in case of violation of our
Acceptable Use Policy, in order to keep our services secure.

In-App Purchase (IAP) Transaction Data:
You can find the detailed privacy policy for each service on the IAP Privacy Policy page.

Accessing, Updating or Deleting Your Personal Information

Account & Contact Data: You have the right to access and update personal data you have previously provided to
us. You can do so at any time by connecting to your personal account on Odoo.com.
If you wish to permanently delete your
account or personal information for a legitimate purpose, please contact our Helpdesk to request so.
We will take all reasonable steps to permanently delete your personal information, except when we are required to keep
it for legal reasons (typically, for administration, billing and tax reporting reasons).

Job Application Data:
You may contact us at any time to request access, updates or deletion of your application information.
The easiest way to do it is to reply to the last message you exchanged with our Human Resource personnel.

Customer Database:
You can manage any data collected in your databases hosted on Odoo.com at any time, using your administration credentials,
including modifying or deleting any personal data stored therein.
At any time you can export a complete backup of your database via our control panel, in order to transfer it, or to manage your
own backups/archive. You are responsible for processing this data in compliance with all privacy regulations.
You may also request the deletion of your entire database via your control panel, at any time.
When you use the Odoo Database Upgrade service, your data is automatically deleted after your
upgrade was successfully completed, and may also be deleted upon request from you.

In-App Purchase (IAP) Transaction Data:
You can find the detailed privacy policy for each service on the IAP Privacy Policy page.

Safety Retention Period: we retain a copy of your data in our backups for safety reasons, even after they are destroyed from
our live systems. See Data Retention for more details.

Security

We realize how important and sensitive your personal data is, and we take a great number of measures to ensure that this information is securely processed,
stored and preserved from data loss and unauthorized access.
Our technical, administrative and organizational security measures are described in details in our Security Policy.

Third Party Service Providers

In order to support our operations we rely on several Service Providers. They help us with various services such as
payment processing, web audience analysis, cloud hosting, marketing and communication, etc.

Whenever we share data with these Service Providers, we make sure that they use it in compliance with Data Protection legislation,
and that the processing they carry out for us is limited to our specific purpose and covered by a specific data processing contract.

Here is a list of the Service Providers we are currently using, why we use them, and what kind of data we share with them:

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Data Retention

Account & Contact Data: we will only retain such data as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, as laid out in this policy,
including any legal retention period, or as long as necessary to carry out a legitimate and reasonable promotion of our
products and services.

Job Application Data:
If we do not hire you, we may keep the information you provide for up to 2 years in order
to contact you again for any new job proposition that may come up, unless you ask us not
to do so. If we hire you, your personal information will be stored for the duration of
your employment contract with us, and afterwards, during the applicable legal retention
period that applies in the country where we employed you.

Browser Data: we will only retain this data for a short period of time, generally 2 months, unless we need to keep it in relation with a legitimate concern
related to the security or performance of our services, or as required by law.

Customer Database: we will only retain this data as long as necessary for providing the services you subscribed to.
For databases hosted on the Odoo Cloud, if you cancel the service your database
is kept deactivated for 3 weeks (the grace period during which you can change your mind), and then destroyed.
For databases uploaded to the Odoo Database Upgrade website, your database is kept for up to
4 months after the last successful upgrade, and may be deleted earlier upon request.

In-App Purchase (IAP) Transaction Data:
You can find the detailed privacy policy for each service on the IAP Privacy Policy page.

Safety Retention Period:

As part of our Security Policy, we always try to preserve your data from
accidental or malicious deletion. As a result, after we delete any of your personal information (Account & Contact Data)
from our database upon request from you, or after you delete any personal information from your database (Customer Database),
or if you delete your entire database,
it is not immediately deleted from our backup systems, which are secured and inalterable.
The personal data could remain stored for up to 12 months in those backups, until they are automatically destroyed.
We commit not to use those backup copies of your deleted data for any purpose except for maintaining the integrity
of our backups, unless you or the law require us to do so.

Transfer of Data

Hosting Services

Hosting Locations: Customer databases are hosted in the Odoo data center closest to where they are based:
Canada, France, Belgium, Hong Kong or Taiwan.
Customers can request that their data be moved to one of the other data centers. Backup Locations: backups are replicated on multiple continents in order to meet our Disaster Recovery objectives,
and are located in the following countries, regardless of the hosting location:
Canada and France
For more details regarding our hosting services, see our Cloud Hosting SLA.

In-App Purchase (IAP) Transaction Data:
You can find the detailed privacy policy for each service on the IAP Privacy Policy page.

International Staff
In some cases, the personal data mentioned in this Privacy Policy may be accessed by staff members of Odoo SA subsidiaries in other countries.
Such access will always be done for the same purposes and with the same privacy and security precautions as if it was done by our own local staff,
so all the guarantees we provide still apply.
We use EU Standard Contractual Clauses
to bind our subsidiaries in a way that offers sufficient safeguards on data protection for the limited and temporary data transfers that occur for such access.

Third Party Disclosure

Except as explicitly mentioned above, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal data to third parties.
We may share or disclose aggregated or de-identified information, for research purposes, or to discuss trends or statistics with third-parties.

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small bits of information sent by our servers to your computer or device when you access our services, and unique to you.
They are stored in your browser and later sent back to our servers so that we can provide contextual content.
We use them to support your activities on our website, for example your session (so you don't have to login again) or your shopping cart.
Cookies are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current activity on our website (the pages you have
visited),
your language and country, which enables us to provide you with improved services.
We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer
better site experiences and tools in the future.

We also use third-party services such as Google Analytics, who set and use their own cookies to identify visitors and provide their own contextual services.
For more information regarding those third-party providers and their Cookie Policy, please see the relevant
references in the Third-Party Service Providers section.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies.
Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser's Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies, or look at the links below.

We do not currently support Do Not Track signals, as there is no industry standard for compliance.

Policy Updates

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, in order to clarify it, or to comply with legal obligations.
The "Last Updated" mention at the top of the policy indicates the last revision, which is also the effective date of those changes.
If you continue to use our services after such a change, you agree to our updated policy.

Contacting Us

If you have are any question regarding this Privacy Policy, or any enquiry about your personal data,
please reach out to the Odoo Helpdesk or contact us at: